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Zusatztext From We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think! Shirley Hazzard emerges! to paraphrase Olubas! as eloquent! thoughtful! civil! and intellectually generous. Informationen zum Autor Shirley Hazzard won the National Book Award for her 2003 novel The Great Fire and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Transit of Venus. She is the author of The Evening of the Holiday and The Bay of Noon, which was nominated for the Lost Booker Prize; Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene; and People in Glass Houses, a short-story collection based on her time at the United Nations. She lives in New York City and Capri. Brigitta Olubas is professor of English in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. She is an editor of the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and the author of Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist. Klappentext This collection of Shirley Hazzard's nonfiction works spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s confirms her influence on world literature and her place among writers, artists, and intellectuals who believe in the ongoing power of literature to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite-or maybe because of-the world's disheartening realities. Zusammenfassung This collection of Shirley Hazzard's nonfiction works spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s confirms her influence on world literature and her place among writers, artists, and intellectuals who believe in the ongoing power of literature to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite—or maybe because of—the world's disheartening realities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Shirley Hazzard—Author, Amateur, Intellectual, by Brigitta Olubas Part I. Through Literature Itself We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think The Lonely Word Part II. The Expressive Word A Mind Like a Blade: Review of Muriel Spark, Collected Stories I and The Public Image Review of Jean Rhys, Quartet The Lasting Sickness of Naples: Review of Matilde Serao, Il Ventre di Napoli The New Novel by the New Nobel Prize Winner: Review of Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm Ordinary People: Review of Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn and Excellent Women Translating Proust Introduction to Geoffrey Scott's The Portrait of Zélide Introduction to Iris Origo's Leopardi: A Study in Solitude William Maxwell Part III. Public Themes The Patron Saint of the UN is Pontius Pilate "Gulag" and the Men of Peace The United Nations: Where Governments Go to Church The League of Frightened Men: Why the UN is So Useless UNhelpful: Waldheim's Latest Debacle A Writer's Reflections on the Nuclear Age Part IV. The Great Occasion Canton More Far Papyrology at Naples The Tuscan in Each of Us Part V. Last Words 2003 National Book Award Acceptance The New York Society Library Discussion, September 2012 Notes Index...
